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Fire from the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista

By Omar Cabezas

Fire from the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista Politics & History

Fire from the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista

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Omar Cabezas Lacayo (born 1950 in León, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan author, revolutionary and politician. He was a commander in the guerrilla war against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and prominent Sandinista party member. He is perhaps most famous outside of Nicaragua for his book FIRE FROM THE MOUNTAIN, which is a personal account of his days as a guerrilla fighting the Somoza dynasty. In an early 80s interview with the ‘New York Times’, Cabezas said, “So much junk has been written, especially in Latin America, about what it means to be a guerrilla. The guerrilla is made into a mythical being who never feels pain and is happy to die at any moment. My book shows the fears and the longings and the pain we felt during our years underground.” FIRE FROM THE MOUNTAIN tells of the early days of what he would call his country’s struggle for independence. Cabezas recreates the atmosphere of the time – the years of the revolution up to 1975 – but more important, he gives the reader a truly personal recollection that focuses on the process of becoming a revolutionary, an effective guerrilla fighter. It tells what it meant to him, what it did to him, how it surprised and at times confused him, and how it felt. On the very day that Cabezas was taken into the mountains to begin his training he left his whole world behind. What he found on the mountain and how he survived the adversities of hunger, exposure, a constant and leaden fatigue, fear and perhaps the toughest - solitude, are what set this book apart from most other accounts of its kind. Omar Cabezas’s book is the story of a young man who left his home, family, and friends to risk his life in the hope of changing the future of his country. He found that to fulfill his dream he had to return to what he had left behind, and when he returned he brought with him the fire from the mountain. Cabezas was a member of the Sandinista government, until he was stripped of his positions in 1987.
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Release Date:
1988-02-01
Publication Date:
1988-02-01
Publisher:
Random House Value Pub
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0517558009
Weight:
1361 g
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